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You're missing the point. Saying something is "heritable" is essentially meaningless. It tells you how that trait would change in the group measured in response
by emmett 17y ago
You're missing the point. Saying something is "heritable" is essentially meaningless. It tells you how that trait would change in the group measured in response to evolutionary selective pressure, and that's it. It doesn't tell you whether the trait is genetic, it doesn't tell you whether the trait is important, and it doesn't tell you whether the trait even exists in a meaningful way.
You can measure quite decent heritability from entirely random traits:
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html